St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-14
BIG And LITTLE BABIES.
Cute Little Codgers Contest for the Ex-
position Prizes.
TO-DAY'S LEADING EVENT.
Secret of the Bachelor DisGlossd---Prep-
arations for the Final
Shot.

On the north side of the Exposition
building, on the third floor, yesterday
afternoon and evening there was great
drawing card in the shape of baby
show. The space on that side of music
hail was cleared of its chairs. hand
somely carpeted, and the pillars above
festooned with bunting of gay coiors.
The whole was rallied around ana
within this bower the cheruos
of Minneapolis and st. Iaul
in the shape of the coming generation
held their ieyee. attended by the most
faithful and adoring slaves. to-wit, their
mothers and retlnue OF otner little ser
yitors. presumably their brothers and
sisters. The competing little ones were
each numbered and divided into sec
tions. in one of which were the girls.
the next the boys, the next twins. Over
all this infant paradise presided
Fred Bracket, but under his
breath he muttered at o'clock
IL am major, but, oh my!' In all sew
enty-two babies competed, Seven-two
WinSome wee tots, remarkably sweet
clean-looking babies, and a credit to the
lnfantile population of the Twin cities,
Some were dark and some were light; !;
some looked dreamy and some looked
bright: some were lean and some were
fat; but all were nice for the matter OF
that. \ particularly interesting case
was that of little Willie Capron,
a little mite that was fast asleep. He
is only twelve weeks old. and he lay in
his mothers lap while she sat in bath
chair on wheels. The unfortunate lady
can never walk, as she is paralyZed below
the hips, yet is pretty and interesting,
both in her looks and manners. Nos.
A. and 46 are bright, chirripy-lookIng
Youngsters from st. Paul of the name
of Clair and Claude Ludwig. No. >
is Alice Moody, a light-haired. biue-eyed
little miss of few months of age
Rosa Cline, No. 80, six months old and
full OF life. Laura Schaller, dark lit
brown hair and eyes. For bright,
manly little fellow there was No. 4S.
Howard Steele, lively all over, with
bright red hair and gray eyes. No. IL
answers to the name of Blaine Bates:
he is really beautiful child, only six
months old, but with all the appearance
of twelve. who peacefully Slumbered
most of the evening. He was ele
gantly dressed and had a natty
looking white woelen cap for his head
gear. The fatty of the convention
hailed from ST. Paul. He is an enor-
NOUS baby of only eight months life.
by name John NJ. Garretty, having
plenty of hair, with brown eyes and the
promise OF some day being as stout and
imposing a gentleman as Grover Cleve-
land himself No. %, Willie Mitchell. is
one of those cute piccaninies that delight
everybody. He is not very dark
and is Splendid little sample of the
Ethiopian race. All day and all the
evening the voting was heavy and the
rivalry strong, but it will be impossible
to know results for day or two yet.
Possibly tomorrow may tell. 1T was a
great idea to bring crowd, for the EN-
position had as big an attendance as
any other day of special feature, and
probably more so.
TIE SECRET OUT.
The secret of the old bachelor has
been disclosed on the platform. The
two mysterious figures We're carried
down, closely yelled. A very feeble or
ator arose and made lOng-winded ora
ton about the fake" then the cloth
was raised from One-it was the old
bachelor in model shape, and the other
figure disclosed genuine man gotten
up in fac simiie style. There lies the
secret: the live man and the model al
ternated time about. and the imitation
was so exact it was an utter lmposslbll-
ity to tell the difference. The Music
hall was thronged full while this little
side issue was worked off, and between
it and the babies Thursday was good
daY for the financial part of the EXpoSi-
ton.
TO-DAY'S BIG EVENT.
To-day will really be "Mlnneapolis
day.'' and over 1900 tickets have been
sold already. Pillsbury & Co. have
purchased thousand for their millers
and families. Almost every tenant in
the Temple court. Loan and Trust build
ing and the Bank of Minneapolis build
ing agree to close early in the afternoon.
Other business blocks are expected to
close also. The jobbers, lumbermen,
flour mills, commission houses, dry
goods. printers, and in fact nearly every
branch of commerce and trade will CO
operate in making to-day gala day.
AND ANOTHER.
Saturday will be grand day. 1t will
be whirlwind of fun from early morn
ing till late at night, when, i'll blaze OF
glory. the curtain will drop on the EX-
position drama which, like a Chinese
play, took six weeks to work out its
many acts. That every one will have to
pay, from manager down, to see this
fun, can be noted by the following dis
patch:
CHICAGO. Oct &c NJ. Palmer Manager
Exposition: Will consent to run your big
show on one condition. Everybody. includ-
ing yourself and employees, must put up their
% cents. For nearly thirty years worked
for glory and got left. Have recently
changed programme and cannot make any
exception i'll your favor. Put up OF shut up.
W. S. KING.